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The four remaining sons - Thomas b.c. 1685, Peter b.c. 1690. James b.c. 1700 and Andrew b.c. 1702 - each founded Co. Mayo families, as did also their cousin. Andrew Rutledge of Poldryan b.c. 1710. All will now be dealt with below, under the headings A.B.C.D and E. The surname gradually became Ruttledge during the l8th century and that spelling is used hereafter.

A. THOMAS RUTTLEDGE of Headford, Co. Galway, b.c. 1685. In the O'Reilly pedigree he is said to have fought for Cromwell. 23 but O'Reilly has confused him with his grandfather. Thomas (1611-1685) above. Thomas married Miss Thomas 23 who probably was a daughter of Revd. Richard Thomas, Rector of Headford Church ( 1687-1720) 26 by his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Bell the Elder of Parance (now Purrauns) near Claremorris. Their son Edward Thomas was born at Headford c.1708. 28 It is not known when Thomas Ruttledge died, or indeed, if he ever came north into Co. Mayo, as did his three younger brothers. His children were:

1. WILLIAM of Hollymount. 23 Co. Mayo of whom below.
2. THOMAS, 23 called Captain Ruttledge, who married Dorothy, 3rd daughter of Francis Knox of Moyne Abbey, near Killala,29 and died at Foxford in 1782. 30 His army career cannot be traced. His wife was born 1729 and died 1791. The Killala. Register ( 1757-1810) gives much of the family history. They had eight children, The eldest son. James. the Port Surveyor of Killala, rowed out on 22 August 1798 with two of Bishop Stock's sons to Humbert's three ships when they appeared off Killala at the beginning of the 1798 invasion. 31 Afterwards he made a claim for £133-13/10d. for cash, cattle, hay. oats. barley and share of nets lost during the invasion. 32 James Ruttledge was buried on 9 April 1826 33 and on 24 June 1826 his eldest son Thomas petitioned the Lord Lieutenant for employment. 34.
3. James who settled in Jamaica and died unmarried.' 23
4. Peter who went abroad and died in the West Indies unmarried. 23 35

WILLIAM RUTTLEDGE of Hollymount, b.c. 1709, married Jane Scott. In 1770 they rented from William's first cousin, Thomas Ruttledge of Cornfield, Co.. Mayo (see B below) the 212 acres of Cahirvosty, 36 four and a half miles south of Hollymount where then or later stood Carravilla. which was occupied by some of their descendants until 1940. lt. is shown incorrectly on O. S. maps as Carranvilla, although the original, but unpublished. O. S. maps name it as Carravilla.37

On 21 January 1747/8 Robert Miller of Milford, near Kilmaine was fatally wounded in a duel with John Brown and died a few days later. On `27th the coroner's inquest brought in their verdict that he was wilfully murdered on the lands of the Musick Field by sd. John Brown '. 38 William Ruttledge was on that jury, and at the request of Thomas Lindsey of Turin, he set out for Dublin on 29 January to give an account of the affair to Col. Owen Wynne 'at his House, Abbey Street, Dublin' to `have this affair Properly layed before the Governor'. 39 In the issue of…………………………………..

26. RCB Library. Revd. J. B. Leslie, succession list, Tuam (unpublished) pp. 48 & 192.

27. RD. 28.33.8256.

28. RCB Library. Revd. J. B. Leslie, succession list, Limerick. pp. 245-6. and Alumni Dublinenses.

29. Burke's Commoners, iv. p. 581.

30. Walker's Hibernian magazine, Nov. 1782, p. 608. Killala P.Rs.

31. A narrative of what passed at Killala, etc. by an eyewitness (London, 1800).

32. NLI, List of persons who suffered losses of property, 1798.

33. Killala P.R.

34. ISPO, CSORP 1826, 13768.

35. RD. 160.389.107969; 151.442.102081. PROI, Crossle Abstracts, morris envelope, v, pp. 14~1, will of Ulick Jonine of Polinerin dated 15 Dec. 1749.

36. RD 293.367.I95799.

37. Cahirvosty has two houses both called Carravilla; the earlier one is in the centre of the townland (see O.S. 1838 map), the more recent is about quarter mile nearer to Hollymount (see PROI House Books of

1842. b. of Kilmaine, p. of Kilcommon).

38. RCB. Library, PR Kilmaine. NLI. P. 3793. Brown v Miller duel.

39. Northumberland RO, Delaval (Hastings) MSS, 650/C/20. Ruttledge MSS. items 106 & 107.